Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f93ff18c4a6d9a95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0151e9fc813e842efa5987a12fdd9e9b SHA-1: d626f7a7a5917bc084b4ab0b870caf3c8b58eff2 SHA-256: f93ff18c4a6d9a9535830cdfbb6892d84e3e9a6278a02e2a67bf91d1b795e0e0
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains an embedded URI that functions as a redirector, identified as a lure for free downloads and phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of an external URI suggest it's designed to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8571

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/razvivatel/yapz/~3/UZrB20b2Dcg/square?utm_term=elementary+education+subtests+i+and+ii PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e87506bf40f76e12ea5147/1625847046758/pass_on_synonym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ec896782b4c978cf424ae1/1626114407478/grand_theft_auto_iv_free_download_for_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e7b4fe5c13cc4fede8cfbe/1625797886208/retrace_ones_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec8551b8cbe518df57f92d/1626113361767/funapivitotedomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e80267dbb92d34f5b03eda/1625817703464/how_can_learning_difficulties_affect_a_childs_development.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e95c8a27127e68041781d7/1625906314885/bixokoturijutilurewolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD234 10868 bytes
SHA-256: d7b2f45c641e627c7f09c8377de25984bc72208c072e706e6698fe12a9c9a5d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10361 16932 bytes
SHA-256: fddf7e75223fa573593e565bc83bbae7aa5a1198dca831c102f27dee06e1f69f